I recently received the following news fron Rick Norcross and it made me wonder if anyone else has something similar hidden away.
One of the other projects I am working on right now will be of interest to you. Back in 1967 and 1968, I owned a coffeehouse in Tampa, Florida and in February of 1968, Diz came over to Florida and played in my club over a period of a little over a month. I had a tape recorder next to the stage and I have a trunk full of recordings I made from the stage, including four tapes of Disley playing his "folk" material. An old friend from my 1965 England days, Graham Bradshaw, owns Roots Records over there and he is interested in releasing a Diz Disley CD that I am producing for release. I have about 90 minutes of very amusing and wonderful Disley songs including the "Battle of Trafalgar" recitation. I have spent maybe 10 hours reviewing the material over the past couple of weeks, transferring the songs from analogue tape format to digital for the mastering process and hope to get a finished product together during the next three or four weeks. It has been kind of spooky spending that much time with Disley again after 42 years as he is talking to me and we are introducing each other back and forth during the shows. I remember clearly the shows and it is a lot of fun "reliving" the experience once again. I'll attach some photos from the shows that we will use for the CD cover. There are many many recordings of Diz doing his jazz material but very few of his comedy/folk show and Graham is pretty excited about getting this out to folks who remember Diz. Ironic, huh?